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Warning: This is a review about the newest Star Wars movie that is currently in cinemas. If you haven’t watched it but plan to do so, this review contains spoilers that will influence your movie experience.

Actually, I wanted to write a blog post about a comparison between the two modern Star Wars movies The Force Awakens (TFA) and Rogue One (RO). I really enjoyed RO and its unconventional approach to the franchise, whereas I disliked TFA for being too repetitive and stale. In my opinion, TFA was a poor copy of Episode IV with new (but underdeveloped) characters. While wouldn’t consider it the worst Star Wars movie ever, it left me unsatisfied and killed my hype for the upcoming episodes. RO did a way better job in expanding the universe and delivering a good story with believable characters. And the last scene was pure beauty.

Many people were shocked after Donald Trump won the United States presidential elections of 2016. They were fooled by false sense of security, supported by many mainstream poll and prediction sites forecasting Hillary Clinton to win. But how could the pollsters be so wrong? And how is it possible to improve future predictions? These are some of the questions, the book The Signal and the Noise wants to answer.

The survival on a stranded island is a commonly used theme in fiction. Be it in TV Shows like Lost or books like Robinson Crusoe or Lord of the Flies, this theme enriches the imaginative power of both the audience and the authors. Dane Huckelbridge is an American author who mostly publishes smaller essays for journals and magazines. Castle of Water is his debut novel in which two fundamentally different characters have to survive on a small deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

To celebrate the 10th post, I decided to give my blog a visual facelift. The header image, the background and the site icon changed to achieve a better representation of an actual library. I hope you like the new design.

Neil Gaiman is a famous British fantasy and mystery author. Besides best-selling novels, he has also written many screenplays and comics. American Gods is one of his well-known works and was published in 2001. I was really happy when I heard the news that the network Starz made a TV series this year. The first season includes 8 episodes, a second season will be published next year. After binge-watching the first season, I am now able to make a verdict. Did Starz succeed with their book adaptation?

What has the legalization of abortion to do with the crime drop rate in the late 1990s? Nothing, you might think at first. The authors of the book Freakonomics would argue against your thought. Steven Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Stephen Dubner is a journalist working for ABC News and The New York Times. They met at an interview and decided to work together on several books. This book was a result of their productive cooperation.

In a time when videogames are as expansive and as time-consuming to produce like Hollywood blockbusters, text-based games appear to be out of time. Choice of Games LLC, a small company from California, want to convince players from the opposite. They are specialized on interactive smartphone games. The Great Tournament, a 180,000 word interactive fantasy novel, is one of their hosted games.